[Ackattack]

I was talking to a guy at work the other day, and the topic of cars came up, and he recently got an '04 Mustang GT. So during our discussion he was dogging on the F-body, and he admitted that I'd spank him in a drag race, but he bought the car for the handling not for drag racing.

So my question is do the GTs really handle any better than an F-body? I was under the impression that they both handled fairly equally, both are addequate and both can be improved on. I don't hear much talk about the rustangs handling, so I don't know much about them.

What is your feeling, knowledge, and/or experience with them handling wise in comparison to an F-body?

[LT4Firehawk]

I've never driven a Mustang, but here's a couple of points for you:
1) On my second trip to Hallett, I had no problems keeping up with a 98/99 Cobra through the corners in my 95 Formula (with stock suspension other than an adj panhard bar). The Cobra would walk away on the straights but I'd catch right back up to him in the corners. And this was with the Cobra driver being way more familiar with Hallett than I was, and having some suspenions mods (otherwise I don't see how he could have gotten the negative camber he had on the front).
2) I find it very telling that the new 05 Mustang basically has an f-body rear suspension. Yes there are some minor differences, but overall it's very close to what we already have. My guess is that the Ford engineers were told "We're going to use a live axle", and they then decided to find the best live axle design they could, and start engineering from that point. To me the 05 Mustang setup really looks like a bunch of engineers took the f-body design and tried to improve on it.
3) I never had Mustangs come close to the performance of either of my Vettes on track. There have been several f-bodies though, that have come close or even exceeded their performance (at least the 92s performance).